Freshman Degree Pathway

Pathway View

These pathways serve as tools, not prescribed programs of study. Before enrolling, you can use them to get a feel for what you can do in this program. After enrolling, you and your advisors can use them as a starting point for building your personalized outcomes-based ILP.

This pathway, intended as a reference, shows a productive route to graduation in four years.  Your actual pathway may not look exactly like the model due to several factors:

  • Any required remedial courses, such as MATH 098 and WRT 095
  • Actual availability of courses during a given semester
  • Personal choices you make in your Individual Learning Plan, in consultation with your advisors

Courses by Requirement

Degree requirements are considered a guideline for graduation, and cannot replace the feedback of an academic advisor. Learn more about degree requirements at CSUMB.

Course units may only be counted once, when a course meets multiple requirements, the letter 'C' means that the completed course units were counted elsewhere.

First Year Seminar

RequirementCourseUnits
First Year SeminarAny approved course3
Total:3

University Learning Requirements

RequirementCourseUnits
Community ParticipationAny approved course4
Creative/Artistic ExpressionAny approved course4
Democratic Participation SBS 212 or GS 2004
Engcom AAny approved course4
Engcom BAny approved course4
EthicsAny approved course4
Literature and Popular Culture SPAN 310 or SPAN 3654
MathcomAny approved course4
Science ContentAny approved course4
Science Methods LabAny approved course4
Science Methods LectureAny approved course4
U.S. Histories SBS 212 or GS 2004
Vibrancy ActivityAny approved course1
Vibrancy TheoryAny approved course3
Total:52

Upper-division General Education

RequirementCourseUnits
GWARAny approved course4
Total:4

Graduation Learning Outcomes

RequirementCourseUnits
Culture & Equity SPAN 310 or SPAN 3654
GWARAny approved course4
Language 2 SPAN 102: Beginning Spanish II4
Language 3 SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish I4
Language 4 SPAN 202: Intermediate Spanish II4
Tech/InfoAny approved course4
Upper Division Service Learning SPAN 301S: Comp/Oral Practice SL2
Total:26

Major Learning Requirements

Click on each MLO to see which courses fulfill that requirement.

RequirementUnits
MLO 2: Language and Linguistic Knowledge32
MLO 3: Literary and Cultural Knowledge36
MLO 4: Secondary Cultural Knowledge4
Total:72

Major Core Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Major Core Course WLC 400: WLC Major Capstone4
Major Core Course WLC 300: WLC Major ProSeminar2
Major Core Course SPAN 301S: Comp/Oral Practice SL4
Major Core Course SPAN 304 or SPAN 321 or SPAN 3224
Major Core Course SPAN 306 or SPAN 3164
Major Core Course SPAN 302 or SPAN 3034
Major Core Course SPAN 310 or SPAN 3654
Total:26

Additional Courses

RequirementCourseUnits
Any approved course1
Total:1